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Ah, happy days. I have such incredibly fond memories of the Giffen era Justice League, and I know a lot of other people do too. It's a bugbear of mine that it's now spoken about as 'embarassing' or a 'flop' in comics press. Well, it obviously wasn't. The writers that followed Giffen couldn't work the characters, and with retrospect shouldn't have tried to, but those 100 plus comics that came out in five years Keith was in charge remain some of the best of the late 80's/early nineties.
I could waffle on about the book at length, about how good te stories were, how well rounded the cast were, just how all round fun it was, but I won't. All I will say is that the J.L.I. years had all the following-
* Heroes who were more neuroticly human than the average.
* Long gaps between action that allowed for interaction, and character conflict.
* A focus on the organisational aspects of a hero team, the funding, the relations with world government.
* A pivotal non powered character who plotted and manipulated to get what he wanted and to get the team to run.
* Attention to how the world and the press saw the team.
You know, all the things that people say are great about Millars Ultimate scripts. The only difference is that Millar writes it as an epic action movie, Giffen writes it as a small screen sitcon. I bet people don't look back as fondly on The Ultimates a decade on though... |
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